US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 9 for "Intra interpolation filter for multi-line intra prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,142, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Intra interpolation filter for multi-line intra prediction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego), Xiang Li (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for selecting an intra interpolation filter for multi-line intra prediction based on a reference line index for decoding a video sequence includes identifying a set of reference lines associated with a coding unit. A first type of interpolation filter is applied to reference samples included in a first reference lin...